Ranidia.] LXXV. RUBIACEÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) lil 
Trenasserru, ManrarAN, and Pzav, Wallich, &e. ; Helfer (Kew Distrib. 2823).— 
Distris. Java. 
A large shrub ; branches very stout ; spines horizontal, 1-2 in., very stout. Leaves 
brown when dry, 1-2 in., often subcuneate, coriaceous ; stipules triangular. Flo wers 
subsolitary, subsessile, 1 in. diam. Calyx-teeth 6-10, linear, erect. — Coro!la- lobes 
oblong-obovate, silky within. Stigma globose, 2-lobed. Berry broadly ellipsoid, 
14-1} in. diam., velvetty, ribbed. 
Secr. III. Oxyceros. Climbing or erect, armed (or young shoots un- 
armed) shrubs or trees. Flowers in shortly peduneled cymes. Corolla salver- 
shaped, tube longer or (in R. malabarica) shorter than the limb, glabrous 
externally. Berry small, about 8-seeded, the calyx-limb deciduous. 
6. R. malabarica, Lamk. Dict. iii. 25; erect, glabrous, spines straight 
or 0, leaves elliptic obovate or oblong, cymes short, flowers fascicled, corolla- 
tube shorter than the lobes. Gardenia fragrans, Koen.; Roxb. Cor. Pl. t. 197 ; 
Roth Nov. Sp. 150; Wall. Cat. 8267. Posoqueria fragrans, Koen. in Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. i. 717. Stylocoryne Pandaki and 8. malabarica, DC. Prodr. iv. 977. 
Griffithia fragrans, JV. $ A. Prodr. 400; Wight Ic. t. 310. Canthium parvi- 
florum, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. No. 816. Gardenia sp. and Rubiacea, Wall. 
Cat. 8281, 8287. 
Western PENINSULA; on the hills, &e., from Canara southwards. CEYLON; not 
uncommon up to 3000 ft., Walker, &e. . 
An erect shrub; young shoots unarmed, “as is the whole plant when growing ina 
rich soil” (Roxb.). Leaves 1-23 in., coriaceous, pale when dry; stipules small, trian- 
gular. Cymes subsessile, glabrous or puberulous, few or many-flowered, with connate 
triangular coriaceous bracts at the forks. Calyw-tube obeonie, teeth minute. Corolla 
3-3 in. diam. Stigma fusiform. Berry size of a pea, areole not raised. Seeds rough ; 
albumen ruminated.—Ceylon specimens have more elliptic leaves, looser cymes, 
larger flowers and more acute buds. 
7. R. longiflora, Lamk. Dict. iii. 26; Ill. t. 156,f. 3; climbing, glabrous, 
spines short recurved or 0, leaves ovate elliptic or oblong, stipules broadly tri- 
angular, cymes short, corolla-tube much longer than the lobes. DC. Prodr. iv. 
386. R. scandens, DC. l. c. 387. Posoqueria longiflora, Roxb Fl. Ind. i. 718. 
Griffithia curvata, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1875, 325. G. siamensis, Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 158. Canthium recurvum and angulosum, Wall. Cat. 8284, 
8285. Webera scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 698. W. longiflora, bispinosa, and 
siamensis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 48, 49. — Tocoyena scandens, Blume Bid. 980. 
Gardenia patula, Horsf. in Mig. F7. Ind. Bat. ii. 232, Pseudixora javanica and 
Zollingeriana, Mig. l. c. 210, Stylocoryne bispinosa, Grif. Notul. iv. 260. 
Assam, Stuur, and Kiasia Mrs., ascending to 2000 ft. ; common. CHITTAGONG, 
and southwards to Maracca and Pexana. ANDAMAN and Nicopar IsLANDS.—DISTRIB. 
Birma, Malay Islands. : 
A large shrub. Leaves 2-8 by 1-3 in., pale or dark when dry, coriaceous, often 
glandular at the nerve-axils beneath, Peduneles short or long, often from alternate 
axils of reduced leaves; cymes trichotomous; bracts as in R. malabarica. Calya 
glabrous or puberulous, limb dilated, lobes triangular. Corolla white, then yellowish ; 
tube 4-1} in.; lobes in. long, oblong. Stigma 2-fid. Berries globose, 1-5 in. diam., 
obscurely ribbed ; areole flat or raised. Seeds rugose, imbedded in pulp; albumen 
ruminate.—A very variable plant, especially in the length of the corolla, but I cannot 
limit the varieties according to the definitions given to the species which I have here 
included under R. longiflora. Wallich’s No. 8284 E. from Singapore (Finlayson) has. 
a calyx 1 in. long, with almost filiform lobes half as long as the tube, and quite unlike 
those of any other variety. Others in Herb. Hooker and Bentham both from Wallich, 
with the ticket 8284 D. (Penang and Singapore) and 8284 C. (Silhet), but which are 
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